Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a composite picture of salesgirls in limited-price chain stores could be drawn from facts and figures presented last week by Miss Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon of the Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor. Miss Pidgeon had made a study of women in 5 & 10 cent stores in 18 states, had interviewed over 6,000 clerks to assemble her data...
...Chain stores make money by piling up tiny profits. In one year the F. W. Woolworth Co. sold 45 tons of candy, 5,113 miles of curtaining, 54 million handkerchiefs. Miss Pidgeon showed that, though their sales had doubled in a decade, this enormous turnover brought no enormous wages to salesgirls. Labor is a prime item in chain-store operation. Where customers can readily see the entire stock, make their selections unaided, the cheapest, most inexperienced young clerk can perform the simple task of wrapping bundles, ringing up receipts...
...presenting practically the same starting lineup as before the examination period, are slightly favored over their mid-western rivals but they will hardly win without a struggle. Coach Iverson's five Canadian-born players, headed by the MacFayden brothers and Clarence MacKenzie have led their team to an unbroken chain of victories in Western Conference collegiate play...
...President Hoover appointed two more newspaper publishers to diplomatic posts: Edward Everett Brodie of Oregon (The Oregon City Morning Enterprise), to be Minister to Finland; Ralph Harman Booth of Michigan (Grand Rapids Press and seven others in a chain), to be Minister to Denmark...
Montgomery Ward & Co. (gross mail order sales: $166,677,000, gross sales in 532 chain stores: $124,853,000): $14,504,000 as against...